Media bias

[class_of_82]

fair play to the linesman for not going down and making a meal out of it. imagine if that was ashley young copping it on the back of the neck

[olaftab]

I think Young would gone down anywhere within 50 yards of that canister.

[Somniloquism]

Its not all about taking pop bottle tops off people

Of course it isn't.

But then why DO they take the tops off bottles? Given that I can quite easily (and do) take a spare bottle top in my pocket, and that a full bottle of coke will do less damage than many other things I could quite legitimately take into the ground (my cheap mobile is sharp enough to do a bit of damage), why are bottle tops considered such a danger?

They do the bottle top thing because, if you drop a plastic bottle with top on onto the floor, you're risking people injuring themselves on them, particularly in the case of an emergency exit.

It's not to do with chucking them on the pitch.

But is a plastic bottle top more dangerous than a discarded plastic glass? The latter tend to be chucked on the floor in hundreds ( thousands?) and must be more of a potential hazard than bottle tops.

The bottle top focus just seems plain daft to me.

Tread on a full bottle on its side with top on. Tread on a bottle with top off. Tread on a plastic cup. Which ones will probably cause you to slip over and which ones will just collapse under your foot. Imagine treading on one of those in a surging crowd trying to get away from an emergency. Will you be able to get up again?

But saying that, I always thought it was because a full bottle can be thrown and is heavy where one with the top off would lose most of its contents before it hit anyone.

Also, for Peter W, a smoke bomb might not explode, but does produce heat. So the linesman was hit suddenly on the back of he neck by a half kilo hot tin of acrid smoke. Why wouldn't that be news? 

I did give the thrower benefit of the doubt that he might have been trying to clear the smoke bomb away from the fans, but the ref had been standing in that spot since the goal, so was not walking back to the halfway line. He would have been a shit Lino if he had being as the last spurs defender was on that line.

[dave.woodhall]

Last night Martin Swain wrote, again, about how the Stripeys are doing well and we're struggling, despite an almost identical place in the table and their easier start. Unlike others there's no real bias or malice with him, so why the difference in perception?

[Clampy]

Last night Martin Swain wrote, again, about how the Stripeys are doing well and we're struggling, despite an almost identical place in the table and their easier start. Unlike others there's no real bias or malice with him, so why the difference in perception?

Because we're the bigger club with better players so we're easier to shoot down. Plus maybe also because he writes for the Express and Star which is more of a Black Country paper than a Birmingham one.

[aj2k77]

Any period where the baggies aren't yo-yoing up and down divisions is seen as a golden era for those faggot loving wankers.

[eastie]

Last night Martin Swain wrote, again, about how the Stripeys are doing well and we're struggling, despite an almost identical place in the table and their easier start. Unlike others there's no real bias or malice with him, so why the difference in perception?

Villa are seen as the bigger club and maybe expected to do better and have done better over the years - bigger club , more finance , bigger support - whereas Albion are perhaps viewed as a smaller club and therefore midtable for them is good considering the premier era has seen them much lower usually ?

[eastie]

Any period where the baggies aren't yo-yoing up and down divisions is seen as a golden era for those faggot loving wankers.

Faggots are not just for the Black Country sir
Eastie likes few things more than a nice faggot & pea batch

[Richard E]

Last night Martin Swain wrote, again, about how the Stripeys are doing well and we're struggling, despite an almost identical place in the table and their easier start. Unlike others there's no real bias or malice with him, so why the difference in perception?

His articles tend to gloss over me these days. It must be about the 15th time he has written that same one now.

[Boz]

Last night Martin Swain wrote, again, about how the Stripeys are doing well and we're struggling, despite an almost identical place in the table and their easier start. Unlike others there's no real bias or malice with him, so why the difference in perception?

Because we're the bigger club with better players so we're easier to shoot down. Plus maybe also because he writes for the Express and Star which is more of a Black Country paper than a Birmingham one.

Right on all counts

[Nev]

It always puzzles me that we are often told that we are no longer a big club but then when it comes to criticism we are classed as one.

You can't have it both ways.

The again if you're an Albion pratt you can pick and choose your rivals depending on which division you are in.

[Clampy]

The again if you're an Albion pratt you can pick and choose your rivals depending on which division you are in.

How very  true.

[Ads]

That's not the only way the Stripey wankers want it.

On the one hand they're plucky West Brom sitting mid-table on 10 points, not like struggling Villa sitting mid-table on 10 points. On the other they're the self titled Pride of the Midlands.

Those fuckers are going to get a right tattering on the 25th.

[Richard E]

That's not the only way the Stripey wankers want it.

On the one hand they're plucky West Brom sitting mid-table on 10 points, not like struggling Villa sitting mid-table on 10 points. On the other they're the self titled Pride of the Midlands.

Those fuckers are going to get a right tattering on the 25th.

Spot on all round.

[dave.woodhall]

It always puzzles me that we are often told that we are no longer a big club but then when it comes to criticism we are classed as one.

You can't have it both ways.

The again if you're an Albion pratt you can pick and choose your rivals depending on which division you are in.

Totally agree, and another thing...

One minute the Stripeys are plucky little underdogs doing ever so well to be where they are, the next they're moaning about us being arrogant and the world being against them.